Magnetic gun "Toy" by Smith (1)

[Paool3107]

You'd figure they would have made a gun using this idea or something.

[Zorrobeat]

PERPETUUM MOBILE!

[simhopp]

@Zorrobeat

this is not perpetual motion.

the initial push of the car by hand, into the rail, is what is powering the system.

the track is working as a spring, stores the energy and releae it at the other end.

[ChilesGreen]

@simhopp

The car is propelled through what we're to assume are a stationary array of magnets. If this thing worked as appeared, an armature with little cars attached to it would spin without any energy input. Perpetual motion is impossible. The problem with your explanation, this so called spring was never loaded to unload. Something besides those magnets is propelling the car.

[simhopp]

@ChilesGreen

well, I guess a hill is better analogy than a spring.

the magnet track is like a hill.

if you push car up the hill and let it go at the top, the car will run down hill and continue to run untill the friction eventually stop the car.

in this case, if you insert the magnet block into the track against push of magnets of the track to certain threshhold,

it is then shooting out of track kinda like a car going down the hill.

[ChilesGreen]

@simhopp

The stationary array of magnets would have to be aligned to repel those on the car otherwise it would instantly stick to the closest magnet. It would be impossible for the car travel through a phalanx of magnets on both sides repelling it back towards the hand pushing it? It seems to get sucked in and pushed out. Stationary magnets don't do that. There's got to be something else propelling this car though the magnets.

[ChilesGreen]

@simhopp

So this is like a pendulum with a set of repelling magnets, one magnet on the pendulum and one repelling magnet at the bottom of it's path of arc. As you to push the pendulum towards the bottom of its arc you encounter resistance as the magnets repel each other. Once you reach the center, it will shoot away in the direction you were pushing it? This arrangement should be able to shoot the car from either end.

[renantibia92]

Hello Friend, My name is Renan and I am Brazilian and sisters wanted to know was that you use to make the cart go faster ... I loved this way of speeding things with magnetism, first time I see something, if I could send videos on magnetism, because I'm very fan!

[heberorozco]

do a larger path and you'll see the difference

[Denis123lol]

booooorrrinnnggg get more powerful magnets

[LizzyAston]

get neodymium.

[Munymuny200]

get more powerful magnets

[Darrin1997]

weak

[mauritziooo]

boring

[lendoggtheking]

the energy required to start it is not related to the length of the track they are two distinct quantities so if you had a perfectly designed circuit it would keep going. it would not however go forever the magnets would slowly lose their magnetism because of the force they exert

[swammy62]

Can you tell us how you do that Thanks

[maxyevs]

what if you like put magnets like these in a circle, would it keep going around forever?

with no energy required?

how is that possible?

[techsniper777]

its not possible. eventually the friction will stop the car. Plus, you can not create more energy than you use. That on push propels the car, only to have some energy from the repulsive force of the magnets to push it forward. Eventualy, it will eiter get stuck onto another magnet or cease to move at all. If it would work, then we would already have proven it. That type of moving is called perpetual energy. Which, as been studied for decades, yet has been proven false. learn your science first

[maxyevs]

oh i think i get it, so the force is only coming from the fact that he has to push down as hard or harder on the car then if he just rolled it to start with, yeah?

[IamTristanC]

did you notice how slow it went in the middle of the magnetic gun? (almost stopped)

then when it reached the end it went fast.

if you loop it it would eventually stop cause the speed of this contraption is created when the car with magnet is pushed away by the magnet in the gun

[REYDOW]

why not continue the line and create free energy :D

[daelectricflower]

it takes more energy to overcome the initial resistance than for the car to accelerate

[triphotography]

Dis you shield the magnets on one side?

[eddytravers]

Mmmm....neat.

[samdatson]

hmm perpetual motion possibilty?

[BM1Pictures]

not perpetual motion because the magnets are the force

[ddanvos68]

Does it take any force to puch onto the first magnet, If so thats where the energy is coming from. If not then its somthing new

[Sinjinator]

Nice. It's ugly, but it works well enough.